Self-Care Series Part 4: Holiday Edition

The holidays are upon us (Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!), and self-care during this bustling time should be a top priority….

We hear you, who has time for that?

Well, here’s your “There’s an oil for that” cheat sheet! Reset your mind during this season of celebration (and stress) with these mood-boosting oils and blends!

This is an easy way to know which oil to reach for when you need a little pick me up.

Turn that Frown Upside Down

If the table conversation takes an unwelcome turn, turn to one of these three oils to beat irritability and help restore peace.

Forgiveness

This soothing and uplifting blend supports your ability not only to forgive yourself and others, but to do it while releasing negative emotions. Ingredients include Sesame, Melissa and Geranium.

Quick Tip: Apply a couple drops to your heart or diffuse to help you let go of negative emotions.

Release

Promote harmony and balance at any gathering by diffusing this relaxing blend.

Quick Tip: You can also apply a drop or two on the back your neck, temples or feet.

Stress Away

If you are new to oils, Stress Away is a great emotional oil to start with because it comes with your Premium Starter Kit. This blend contains pleasing hints of vanilla and lime to help calm the mind.

Quick Tip: For a long holiday drive, put a couple drops of Stress Away on a cotton ball and place in your car vent for a calmer trip.

Get Inspired

If holidays don’t give you warm fuzzies, you don’t have to feel stuck. Help yourself get out of your rut with these three oils.

Hope

Hope helps reconnect you with feelings of strength and stamina. The result: a bolstered body and spirit.

Quick Tip: This gentle blend can be worn as a personal fragrance on days you need a pick me up.

Sacred Mountain

Channel the peace that comes from nature with this blend of Ylang Ylang and conifer oils.

Quick Tip: If applying topically, dilute with a carrier oil.

Tangerine

Tangerine has an appealing aroma that’s mood-boosting and multitasking. It’s great for focus during study or peace during mediation.

Quick Tip: You can get double self-care use out of this happy citrus oil. With its cleansing properties, you can add Tangerine to your morning skincare routine.

Unleash Empowerment

If planning has got you overwhelmed, take a moment to breathe deeply. Bonus if you have one of these three encouraging oils by your side.

Grounding

This blend of White Fir, Black Spruce, Ylang Ylang, Pine, and other essential oils helps you cope with life’s daily challenges by promoting feelings of stability, clarity and spirituality.

Quick Tip: This oil is only available to Young Living members. Not a member? Learn more here!

Peace & Calming

One of Young Living’s most popular blends, this little bottle can be used all day. Pair with Citrus Fresh for an invigorating start to your day and then apply a couple drops on the back of your neck as a part of your family’s bedtime routine.

Quick Tip: After a busy day of errands, diffuse as you take a steamy shower.

Transformation

This invigorating oil helps support emotional transformation. Diffuse to help swap negative beliefs with more uplifting thoughts.

Quick Tip: This oil should also be diluted with a carrier oil when used topically.

Any oils you’d add to our cheat sheet? Let us know in the comments!

Self-Care Series Part 3: The Feelings Kit for Kids

This week, we’ve got more tips for giving your oily kids an emotional boost. What could be easier than a kid-specific take on the Feelings Kit? If you missed our Feeling Kit protocol, check it out for a 30 day kick-start to treating yourself well!

Here are a few tips from Jaynelle on how to use these wonderful, emotional oils with your littles:

The Feelings Kit for Kids

This powerful kit can help support the whole family.

Valor

Reach for Valor to help your kids be BRAVE, STRONG and kick fear to the curb. It’s hard growing up, I love supporting my littles through hard times with Valor.

Harmony

I know I choose to have HARMONY in my house! (Who’s with me?) Use this one for feelings of jealousy, negativity and insecurity. Great for those battle times between siblings! Diffuse or apply on belly.

Forgiveness

It is hard to learn to forgive. Use to help your littles let go when they have been wronged. It’s a hard lesson to learn so why not help aid our littles in the process! Diffuse or apply on chest area.

Inner Child

This oil is a wise choice to help kiddos stay in touch with who they are and who they were CREATED to be, rather than emotionally detaching and losing themselves.

A serious note: when children have been abused, they become disconnected from their inner child (identity), which causes confusion (and so much more). Use this oil to help them reconnect. Diffuse or apply around ears.

Release

Say BYE to tantrums by releasing anger and frustration that build up over time. Moms of 2 and 3 year olds, rejoice! Diffuse or apply over liver area.

Present Time

Present Time in action!

Mamas this one's for you! I use Present Time to be in the moment. It’s a reminder to put away my cell phone and computer and turn off the TV – be in the PRESENT with my babies… they grow up way too fast to tell them to “hold on” while you answer an email. I have had my share of moments not being present and I love how this oil helps you be aware while spending time with our little people.

Just as I was typing this, my littlest came back here for a diaper change. I decided that I would take my own advice and live in the moment. I set my computer aside and we played and snuggled for a bit. Then he saw my Feelings Kit box and thought it was fun to play with – that is how I got this adorable picture… being present!

Diffuse or apply around ears and wrist.

DIY Recipe: Happy Dance Roller

Want to keep something on hand, all the time? Try this Happy Dance Roller for kids!

• 10 ml roller bottle or half the recipe for a 5ml

• 10 drops White Angelica

• 4 drops Surrender

• 7 drops Orange

Optional swaps: Inner Child instead of Surrender & Lemon/Citrus Fresh instead of Orange

Top it off with carrier oil and roll away!

Self-Care Series Part 2: Emotional Oils for Kids

Welcome back to our self-care series! Last week we covered the Feeling Collection Protocol. Check it out for! It’s a great recommendation on how to seek emotional support with a few intentional moments with your oils each day.

This week, we are sharing our favorite emotional oils for kids! Thanks to Jaynelle for once again sharing her tried-and-true tips. Enjoy! And if you have any oily kid tips, make sure to comment below.

Learn how to support your kids (ever changing) emotions with our favorite feelings oils for kids.

Our Favorite Emotional Oils for Kids

I am 33 years old and still figuring out and working on my own emotions… Imagine how difficult it can be for our kiddos! The first day of school, losing a favorite “lovey,” first night away from home, graduating from high school – no emotion is too small (or from too small a person) to acknowledge. We all feel, and I love how we can support our babies as they grow through every walk and stage of life.

With all that said – it is time to listen up mommas, nannies, grandparents, dads, foster parents, sisters, babysitters and brothers. My boys have been oily babies since day one of their lives and it has helped us ALL so much! Here are some favorites in our house!

Stress Away

The name says it all. I bet this is one of the first emotional oils you used because it is in the starter kit. This is a goody! Our sweet kids are way too prone to the stresses of this world. They are also watching our every move and see/feel our stress as well. It is smart for all of us to sit back and stress less with this amazing oil. It is great on the wrists, temples and neck. I even wear it as a perfume many days, the vanilla lime scent is addicting!

Orange & Lemon

Orange and Lemon are happy oils and help bring peace. They very uplifting when we are feeling down and need that extra pick me up. They are GREAT diffused, applied and mix well with Joy or White Angelica.

White Angelica

This oil is AMAZING! Probably the MOST used in our house. It is a blend made up of 10 oils that helps protect us from the negativity that can creep up during the day. White Angelica is very uplifting and calming to the emotions. It can also help open our hearts. Wear it daily and just watch as your whole attitude about life changes. Truly amazing!

Peace & Calming

This is the first and last oil of the day that my youngest gets. He responds very well to it. Its effects are all in the name. Apply to the chest, back of the neck and bottoms of the feet for a great day!

Joy

Did you know that this blend used to be called Love? Yep, it sure did and that is very fitting because it helps to encourage memories of being loved and held. It can also help open up the ability to receive love. Our babies need to be loved on and know they are secure – I love this oil for this! Apply it in a clockwise motion over the heart and smell it deeply!

Surrender

I have a stubborn one -- strong willed, independent, and very determined! This oil helps calm down those moments when his personality can turn into a tantrum. Sometimes we all just need to take a breath and calm down.

As we asked up top, do you have any family favorites to share? Let us know! And stay tuned for another self-care post next week!

Self-Care Series Part 1: The Feelings Collection Protocol

Temperatures dropping means a lot things when it comes to self-care.

• Apply Thieves daily. Immune support is key at this time of year. (Now in a roll-on, WHAT??!!)

• Care for your skin with soothing favorites like Frankincense, Lavender and Helichrysum.

• Treat yourself to an at home spa experience with shower fizzles or bath bombs.
  
  

These are all great. Do them. (And repeat!) But for the first three weeks of our new self-care series, we’re going to focus on emotional support. With the busyness of holidays and gloomy weather approaching, focusing on feelings is key.

Imagine focusing on positive mantras, peaceful feelings and powerful oils for the month leading into the holidays and winter ahead. Intrigued? Here’s a 30 day protocol that goes along with the Feelings Kit. Jaynelle recently shared this encouraging call to intentionally use these emotional oils daily.

The Feelings Kit Protocol

The Feelings Kit Protocol can take as little as 5 minutes a day!

According to Gary Young, “99% of life’s decisions are made from feelings.”

If this is true for you, then you want your feelings in check so you can lead a life guided by good decisions and good emotions. Being aware of your current emotions and learning how to release emotions of the past will lead you to a life of health, fulfillment and joy!

Essential oils are the perfect vehicles to help you in this task because their molecules pass directly to the emotional brain. Our brain is a record of the past and when we can RESOLVE and IDENTIFY issues from our past, watch out! You have just cleared away your emotional baggage and made a way for your highest potential.

Enter the Feelings Collection Protocol. This is a special one and when you do this for 30 days straight, morning and night, you will see a difference, you will feel enthusiastic about life and everything it has to offer.

The How-To

Before each step, smell the oil.

Step 1: Apply Valor on the bottoms of your feet to balance your feelings.

Optional affirmation: I am ready to transform my life

Step 2: Apply Harmony on the energy points of the body to release unpleasant energies.

Optional affirmation: I am open to give and receive love

Step 3: Apply Forgiveness clockwise on the navel to let go of negative emotion.

Optional affirmation: I forgive myself and others for past mistakes

Step 4: Apply Present Time to the wrists and behind your ears.

Optional affirmation: I let go of my past

Step 5: Apply Release over the front and back liver in the circular motion.

Optional affirmation: I release all negativity from my body

Step 6: Apply Inner Child under your nose.

Optional affirmation: My authentic self is enough

Step 7: Apply Valor once again to complete the Feelings Kit experience.

Optional affirmation: I am ready to transform my life

Bonus Step: Apply White Angelica over your shoulders and brush your hands over your arms.

The Why

You can do this whole protocol in 1-2 minutes or you can make it a time of reflection, peace and prayer while you do it. The choice is yours. The most important thing is just USE your oils!! You might have past emotions come up or you might not. The best advice I can give you, though, is if you DO then work through them. Do not stuff the emotions, you will feel so much better on the other side, I promise!

These oils are packaged together in a convenient kit as well: The Feelings Collection $181 (Wholesale). This is definitely the cheapest way to snag these oils.

Your Turn

What’s your favorite oily pick-me-up? Share with us! Stay tuned as we cover emotional oils for oily kids next week.